264 МВ. В. $. ADAMSON ON THE COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 
in native material, not in cultivated, some thiekening oceurs on the inner 
appressed part. Stomata occur on both sides at the tip of the leaf. The 
leaf-trace passes out normally and the leaf-bundles are central in the meso- 
phyll, which in structure is very like that of V. Hectori, Cork is only 
developed at the base of old leaves. 
V. eupressoides, Hook. f. *. 
The leaves are small and fleshy and slightly spreading, with hairs along 
their margins. The epidermis is more strengthened on the under side. 
Fie. 14. 
Transverse section of leaf of V. cupressoides. х 200. 
Palisade-cells are developed along the lower side (fig. 14) f. Cork is not 
developed at the leaf-base. Stomata are confined to the lower side of the 
leaf, but they also occur on the assimilating stem. 
V. propinqua, Cheesem. = V. cupressoides var. variabilis |. 
This is the plant often cultivated as V. salicornivides, but is not the true 
V. salicornioides, Hook. Ё. It is like the preceding, but has more appressed 
leaves and shorter internodes. The palisade-tissue is very slightly differ- 
entiated from the rest of the mesophyll. Cork occurs at the leaf-base. 
* Dot. Mag. t. 7348. t Cf. Goebel (1908), fig. 15. 
| №. E. Brown (1888). 
